Clothes-line apparatus.



"PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905.

' GADAWSON. CLOTHES LINE APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25,19Q5.

Witnesses I Attorn ys I .simpli increase the efficiency of apparatus ofthis UNITED srA Es PATENT OFFICE.

GRANT DAWSON, OF STREET, -MARYLAND.

CLOTHES-LINE'APPARATUS.

the county of Harford and State of Maryland,

have invented a new anduseful Clothes-Line Apparatus, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for supportin clothes-lines, and hasfor'its object to and improve the construction and character.

With this and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novelfeatures of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a I part of this specification,and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designatingcharacters, is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of theinvention capable of carrying the same into practical operation;

'In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of theimproved apparatus. ig. 2 is a plan view, enlarged, of the outer end ofthe device.

The improved apparatus comprises two supporting means disposed atopposite ends of the field of operations of the same and may be of anyrequired size or structure and spaced any distance apart. The spacedmembers may be attached to oppositely-disposed buildings or to postsrising from the ground at opposite sides ofthe drying-yard or otherwisedisposed as circumstances or the conditions of the locality where theapparatus is erected may require. For the purpose of illustration animproved construction of the supporting means is shown, the means at one.end consisting of a post 10, having a crossbeam 11, carrying spacedyoke-frames 12 13 in which cable guide-pulleys 14 15 are mounted forrotation ona rod 16, the one rod thus pulleys 23 24 and 25 26. The drum18 is provided at the center with a radial pins 27.

The clothes line will preferably be of metal possessing sufiicientflexibility to readily pass around thedrum and guide-pulleys,

plurality of spaced Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed.March 25, 1905. Serial 116. 252,018.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

and is indicated as a whole at 28, and is connected by theends, as at 2930, to the drum and passes thence around the drum in one direction andover the guide-pulleys25 26, and thence around the guide-pulleys 14 15,and

thence back around the guide-pulleys 23 24,

and thence around the drum from the opposite side and engaged by thebight of the line or cable to one of the radial pins 27, as at 31. Wheninstalling the apparatus, enough surplus line will be wound upon thedrum 18 to correspond to the distance between the end supporting means,so that when the drum is rotated in one direction the line will be woundupon one part of the drum and un wound from the other part, as willbeobv1ous.

The supporting means 17 carrying the drum 18, will be located convenientto the 10- cality where the garments are to be attached to the line, asby clothes-pins, in the usual manner, and the portions of the lineextending between the guide-pulleys 25 and 14 and between the pulleys 26and 15 will, be thus utilized, and as fast as the garments are attachedthe drum 18 will be rotated and the 1gjrmnts carried along until thelines are ll. In removing the garments the operation is reversed, aswill be obvious.

When the lines become slack from any cause, the slack can be readilytaken up by setting the bight 31 of the same over another of the pins27, the pins thus serving as an efiective means for adjusting thetension, as will be obvious.

posed above and nearer together than the cable guide-pulleys 25. 26carry the return portions of the line above and inwardly from theoperative portions of the line and guide the same centrally to the drum18, and thus prevent entanglement of the lines or interference with thegarments being dried.

The apparatus is simple in construction, can be inexpensivelymanufactured, and can The cable guide-pulleys 23 24 being disbe readilyinstalled in any locality where such a device is required.

Having thus described the invention, what isclaimed is v 1. A device ofthe class described, comprising spaced guide-pulleys disposed ,at oneend and a drum mounted for rotation at the other end of the field ofoperations of the device, said drum having spaced pins extendingradially therefrom, and a cable connected by the ends to said drum andleading from one end of the same around said guide-pulleys and back tosaid drum and connected to the opposite side of the same by engaging thebight of the cable with one of said radial pins.

2. In a device of the class described, spaced supports disposed at theends of the field of operations of said device, spaced guide-pul leysconnected to one of said supports, a drum mounted for rotation upon theother of said supports, supporting-brackets connected to the supportcarrying said drum, a plurality of spaced guide-pulleys carried by saidbrackets, a cable connected by theends to said drum and leading from oneside of the GRANT DAWSON.

Witnesses:

WALTON M. TORRELL, CHARLES E. JACKSON.

